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Teen Calls 911 Over Xbox Punishment

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on Nov 18, 2009 5:40PM

File this under "Why We Can't Have Nice Things." When a Buffalo Grove teen had his Xbox video game system taken away by his parents as punishment for an undisclosed transgression, he called the police to see if it was within their legal rights to do so. Sure enough, it is, the responding officers told him. Well, we're glad that clears that up. At this rate, the kid is probably one step away from becoming this guy: